Insisting that a serving Prime Minister should not knowingly mislead Parliament, and that if he has he must resign, is *defending* our democracy, not “undermining” or “belittling” it.
https://twitter.com/danielmgmoylan/status/1484676110503796742
We do not elect our governments or MPs with carte blanche to do anything they like. That would be episodic autocracy. We elect them to operate within the rules of our constitution. Which is representative democracy.
And one of the few hard-edged conventions with hard-edged consequences in our constitutional arrangements is that if Ministers knowingly mislead Parliament, they resign.
That convention plays as important a part in the accountability of government to Parliament as do rules that lawyers and witnesses must not mislead the court in our justice system. Without it, accountability collapses.
You really would think that a party of the centre right that was in possession of its marbles would not need to be reminded of that point.
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